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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

As always, the good folks at CAN International bring the heat with their ECO Newsletter. This time calling out the failure of the article 6.2 framework that straight up left out labor and working people.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Good morning from Bonn, the climate negotiations yearly intercessional. This year we’ve got a serious focus in the trade-climate nexus… which is where I currently am… at the dialogue between the UNFCCC, WTO, UNCTAD and the member countries. Except for the US of course. 🙄

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Postcard my wife’s grandma (who was an early childhood educator) sent in 1983!

Postcard that reads “Once upon a time, our daycare center had enough money for toys and teachers, and the Pentagon had to hold a bake sale.”

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“Springtime” in Maine… but SPRINGTIME for the US! #PortlandME #NoKings

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Major kudos to Richard B. and Lara R. Skinner for editing and masterminding, and to all of my fellow authors!

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If so (but honestly either way…) then I am very excited to share the news that the latest research volume from the Labor and Employment Relations Association and Cornell University Press has been published… AND it features a chapter I wrote...

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Need something a little different than the current news? Then perhaps I can tempt you with a book that looks back at the last Administration’s efforts on climate, labor, clean energy, and manufacturing with an eye towards the future?

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Well this is already fruitful, one quick search for "union" and we get some potential shady shit...

Email that reads:
From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 10/24/2012 4:58:47 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid
have one of your cronys ask to see the mortgage to mara lago cash from electricinas union„ ( his driver MAtt
was the bag man, later made an exec at the public co. ) and the 30 milllion dollar loan from the casino to donald
trump. backdated,

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Paraphrasing one of my favorite poets… What better place than here? What better time than now? Who else but us? #NoKings (From the small town of Yarmouth, ME where the people showed up!)

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Is that guy standing up giving the “white power” sign…? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

Picture of dudes released from Venezuelan prison as part of swap that includes triple murderer.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Official thoughts on the stupidity of the administration’s gutting of manufacturing investments:

DOE Cancellation of Clean Energy Projects is Job-Killing Action that Hurts Consumers, CAP’s Mike Williams Says

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Trump administration announced the cancellation of $3.7 billion in awards for emerging energy technologies issued during the previous administration. Many of these projects involved investments in industrial and manufacturing facilities to limit carbon emissions contributing to pollution and climate change. In response, Mike Williams, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, issued the following comments:

"How can the administration claim to care about domestic manufacturing when it is gutting investments in the future of domestic manufacturing? These projects are not just reducing pollution, they are keeping the U.S. on the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. Canceling these important projects will raise energy prices for consumers and sacrifice thousands of high-quality union jobs, all because the president wants to curry favor with Big Oil.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

As a Knicks fan, tip of the hat to Paul Pierce. But somebody send a cab to pick him up. No need to make the man walk the whole way... otherwise we're gonna reenact this... ⬇️

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Errr, amazingly (especially to me who got engaged in politics in the early aughts)... Drudge is playing this role... drudgereport.com?NF=1

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just in case anybody thought Heritage actually has values… Shot… chaser.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This all sucks. Here’s a picture of Zelda. She’s very good at being comforting… and stealing my food.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In short, we’ve let out industry leave and let deindustrialization hollow out communities in the past – the Jenga-ization of the economy as we call it…

A Jenga tower showing the hollowing out bottom as elements of deindustrialization and the wobbly top as the shareholder buybacks and massive CEO salaries

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is literally every offshore wind project. Every single one.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Over in the hellscape that's Xitter, getting some fun engagement on our paper on State Efforts to Decarb the Industrial Sector. And it's from a state rep from CO, hoo boy. cc @jamiefriedman.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/stat...

screenshot of tweet about report with a subtweet that decides to make a correlation between CO2 and GDP.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hi Zelda! Meet our Zelda! You two look like opposites, but I guarantee you’re both extremely good dogs.

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Finished off my time at #COP29 with an event we (@americanprogress.bsky.social) co-hosted with the folks at Shakti, RFF, and ANU on the climate, trade, and industrial policy intersection. A mighty interesting discussion with a mighty interesting opening by Sen. Whitehouse 1/13

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Would anyone like to see a sleeping Zelda? Yes? Okay, here she is snuggled with a friend:

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Oh to be a flat cat like Sevy…

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